Jon Tatooles is co-founder and former managing director of Sound Devices, a Wisconsin-based specialty electronics company. Sound Devices was acquired in Q3 2021 by British audio company Audiotonix. Sound Devices was a pure startup launched in 1998 by Jon and Matt Anderson, its two founders. Their portable audio products are the worldwide industry standard for production sound mixers and video professionals in feature-film, documentary, ENG, and reality television.. He is a graduate of Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (B.S. School of Communications, 1989) and is an advisor to their Audio Arts program. Jon regularly speaks on audio and video technology and techniques worldwide.